Leo Drey, Honorary ASLA, dies at 98
via STLtoday Leo Drey had a grand plan to make money from the wrecked forests. He would restore them, selectively harvest and sell some timber while preserving the rest for nature lovers, recreation and gradual harvesting later. His buying trips paid off and eventually he became Missouri’s largest private landowner. Then he gave it all away — to a foundation he set up to preserve the land.
Mr. Drey helped form the Open Space Council in 1965 and the Missouri Coalition for the Environment in 1969, an environmental group for which he was the first president.In 1964, he was instrumental in the establishment by Congress of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Drey died Tuesday (May 26, 2015) at home in University City, about two weeks after suffering a stroke. Read his obituary.
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